Wednesday, December 3, 2014

The AA solution

In reading the Big Book of AA I discovered this advice:
Ask God to:
  • direct our thinking
  • divorce our brains of self pity, dishonesty, and self seeking motives
  • clear our brains of wrong motives
  • use our brains
  • give us inspiration when we’re indecisive
  • give us intuitive thoughts for our decision making
Then relax; take it easy; don’t struggle
Ask God through out the day to:
  • show us our next step
  • give us what we need to take care of each problem we encounter
  • give us freedom from self will so that we only ask for things that benefits others.
And at the end of each day ask yourself if you:
  • have been resentful, selfish, dishonest afraid
  • need to apologize or share with someone else
  • were:
    •     kind and loving towards others
    •     thinking of ourselves most of the time
    •     thinking of what we could do for others
  • could have done better

Don’t worry; feel remorse; or entertain morbid reflection; all of these limit our effectiveness; instead ask God how to fix things.

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